Conspiracy theorists migh suggest that this OpenGL improvement for ATI video cards and the most recent "bug" that has all work suspended for nVidia cards just might be related somehow... <grin>Digital1

using ATI radion HD 5870 with catalyst 12.8(x64) driver BOINC 7.0.28(x64).
GPU&Grpfx-memory clock is high (temperature goes up) but there is no activity.(default settings GPU&Grpfx-memory not overclocked)

activity on the card goes up after stopping tasks running on the CPU.
Have similar issues with opt-apps.

Had best results using catalyst 11.3(x64) driver in the past.
(using opt-apps)

True. But read what happens is in the post..
Will try to explain in other words.

The first task running after starting BOING is going "okay".
Then the "second"task is running and it's like it's running on just the CPU.
To complete the second "in a short". I have to stop boinc and start it aging.
Then the task is running, till it's done. Then the next task again is running very slowly. Again It's like it's onlyrunning on the CPU at that moment.

I have no complaints!! Only questions. ;) I only expect activity on the GPU?
According to the catalyst driver there is none or very little.
With the old old catalyst 11.3(x64) and (yes i know) opt apps from lunatics the activity on the GPU was "continuously high".

Maybe I'm wrong.... That's why I wrote it looks like...
And yes I did gorget to mention that I only had astropuls task for the GPU..Sorry! Cant's say anythin about the others at the moment. didn't had those tasks yet.

I have an i7 950 system overclocked (so I have 8 threads working), with 3 ATI HD 4800 series graphics cards. I'm new to all of this but was looking forward to getting my first astropulse work-set when I heard it might use the ATI GPU's. I finally got my first astropulse today and my GPU's are showing idle.

I saw where some special .exe's proceeded the running of the astropulse, but it's like they are not running. Where do I go to read about turning them on or looking for an error log to diagnose things?

So far I have looked in Bionic's Advanced / Event Log and didn't see anything note worthy.

I have an i7 950 system overclocked (so I have 8 threads working), with 3 ATI HD 4800 series graphics cards. I'm new to all of this but was looking forward to getting my first astropulse work-set when I heard it might use the ATI GPU's. I finally got my first astropulse today and my GPU's are showing idle.

I saw where some special .exe's proceeded the running of the astropulse, but it's like they are not running. Where do I go to read about turning them on or looking for an error log to diagnose things?

So far I have looked in Bionic's Advanced / Event Log and didn't see anything note worthy.